Michael Vono

Michael Louis Vono (born September 15, 1948) was the ninth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Rio Grande.

Vono was born in Providence, Rhode Island, on September 15, 1948, and was raised as a Roman Catholic.

He studied for the catholic priesthood at Our Lady of Providence Seminary in Warwick, Rhode Island, and earned a Bachelor of Arts.

After joining the Episcopal Church in 1974, he also resumed training for the priesthood and earned a certificate in Anglican Studies from the Virginia Theological Seminary in 1976.

He was consecrated on October 24, 2010, by Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori at the Hilton Hotel in Albuquerque, New Mexico.